Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!datangua
From: datangua@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay)
Subject: Re: Trouble at EOF
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.120927.3802@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <12847@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <4739@inews.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 12:09:27 GMT
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In article <4739@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
 >    while ( fgets(s, sizeof s, stream) )
 >	/* not eof */
 >	process(s);
 >
 >    /* reached iff eof */
 >    if ( strlen(s) != 0 ) {
 >	/* there's something left to process */
 >	if ( s[strlen(s) - 1] != '\n' )
 >	    /* it has no newline */
 >	    strcat(s,"\n");
 >	process(s);
 >    }

Huh? 4.9.7.2: "If end-of-file is encountered and no characters have been read
into the array, the contents of the array remain unchanged and a null pointer
is returned." fgets does not return NULL for eof when there are characters
read, so (barring I/O errors) the above code will process the last "line"
twice.
-- 
David Tanguay        datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu        Thinkage, Ltd.